[wplug] Geeky things for tomorrow

Vanco, Don don.vanco at agilysys.com
Fri Jan 9 14:33:48 EST 2004


wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:

> 2) Plan 9: I've had a Plan 9 install image on my HDD for months, and
>     haven't had time to try it out.  For those that don't know, Plan 9
>     was developed by Ken Thompson (the same fellow who invented Unix)
>     and was intended to replace Unix by fixing the mistakes that were
> made by Unix. 
	Isn't plan 9 a "distributed OS"??  I recall looking at it circa 1996
and it sounded pretty cool.  Had support for the Andrews file systems, etc
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/

Don



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